Rick Rutkowski on the bad joke-cracking, Arsenal-loving, Cream-obsessed human drug-info bank that is Harry Shapiro, as he celebrates 30 years as the information guru at DrugScope. A life on drugs (PDF)

The links between illegal drugs and domestic violence. Yet services have found it hard to share expertise. Sam Hart reports on how a new project aims to help both victims and perpetrators by bridging the gap between the domestic violence…

Britain’s emerging population of older drug users is setting unique challenges for the treatment sector. Caryl Beynon and Lloyd Baron examine how ageing heroin veterans from the 1960s onwards are forming a new wave of problem drug users. Twist and…

Sniffers dogs are now a common sight in train stations, airports and even schools. But few people are aware they are being brought in to search mentally ill patients on hundreds of psychiatric wards across the country. Friend or foe?…